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Neglect Of Animals Dream Meaning

A common dream symbol that typically represents neglect of some aspect of your inner nature. For example, you may have been given an animal to look after, usually somebody else’s pet, while they were away on holiday and then completely forgot about the animal, only to discover it later starving, injured or even dead. This dream is reminding you that you have a responsibility to yourself and to see that your own sexual, nutritional and bodily needs are met. [1]

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  1. The Element Encyclopedia by Theresa Cheung [Back to dream]

What does NEGLECT OF ANIMALS mean in a dream?


A common dream symbol that typically represents neglect of some aspect of your inner nature. For example, you may have been given an animal to look after, usually somebody else’s...

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Revealed to stop the neglect and start the nurturing

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Freud and others attach sexual significance to dreams of animals; dream interpreters, however, regard the dream of a number of domestic animals as auguring happiness, while wild animals symbolize enemies.

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Neglect, or problems caused by neglect or avoidance.Shirking a responsibility, especially for something that needs ongoing maintenance, upkeep, or “tending to” (relationship, finances, health, job, etc.).A person whom you feel...

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One who takes special care of animals or people who are treated like animals; see “animals”

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If a person sees himself as becoming the owner of will animals and these animals are under his full control so that he leads them to wherever he desires, it...

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To dream you are amorous, warns you against personal desires and pleasures, as they are threatening to engulf you in scandal.For a young woman it portends illicit engagements, unless she...

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To dream of wise animals suggests important information from your intuition or inner wisdom. This intuitive wisdom is within every one of us and the result of thousands of years...

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Hiding from or being trapped by animals can suggest you are feeling controlled or threatened by your urges or the emotions or feelings of others.If the animal is watching you,...

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Beavers are very busy animals. They gnaw all day and build their homes. They are generally not considered to be friendly animals. All of their hard work is focused on...

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If you dream of hybrid animals (half one creature, half another), this symbolizes that you are learning to incorporate different sides of yourself, as you grow and mature into a...

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Usually wild animals stand for danger, dangerous passions or dangerous people. There is a destructive force arising from the unconscious, threatening our safety. Such a dream may be a way...

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To dream of composite animals could indicate some confusion in sorting out what qualities we need to use in waking life.The qualities of the various animals need to be assimilated...

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To dream of animals mixed up with each other, for example, half animal-half man, could suggest confusion in finding the best approach to a situation in waking life. Perhaps the...

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You can expect new and pleasant interests if you heard young animals bleating in your dream.See also Lamb and Animals.

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For further clarity read the information on composite animals in animals, as well as the entries for journey and transport.

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Also see Dream Dictionary: Baby Animals in Animals

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See sinister animals and transformation of animals in this section.

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(see Animals by type, Field, Trees)Obscureness (e.g., “not seeing the forest for the trees”).Dark and filled with animals: Personal instincts and drives, reflected in the type of animals or their...

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That which has gone to waste because of spiritual neglect

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If you dreamed of a herd of these striped animals» they are warning you that your efforts are being expended in the wrong direction; however, if your dream featured a...

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Spiritual neglect; see “mildew”

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Exploring unconscious or hidden aspects of self.If meet animals on the safari, see Animal or specific animals.

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Degradation which comes from the degeneracy of spiritual neglect

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The figures of animals are an easy way for us to accept the help the subconscious and spiritual realms can offer. Your totem animal is traditionally your ‘guide’ through the...

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(1) Animals with horns arc often symbolic of male sexuality, virility, aggression.(2) Homs may symbolize fertility - that is, the power of growth within your psyche.(3) Homed animals may represent...

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Seen in a dream most unusual animals represent difficulties and problems which will cause considerable worry unless you managed to drive the beasts away, in which case you will overcome...

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The final result of gradual neglect, literally and spiritually

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The “wearing away” in one’s life by time or neglect; research details

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Game animals—notably the deer, rabbit and hare—offer encouragement, and dreamers should view their presence optimistically. The rabbit’s renowned ability to breed offers the promise of fertility in women and virility...

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To dream of trying to find some refuge from animals, whether by building defences or perhaps by running away, is indicative of our struggle with our animal instincts and whether...

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Take care not to be swindled. You will be asked to assist others. Do not neglect your own affairs while trying to settle those of others.

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A symbol of temporary relief from mental or physical pain and neglect

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If you see strange and weird illuminations in your dreams, you will meet with disappointments and failures on every hand. Illuminated faces, indicate unsettled business, both private and official.To see...

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To dream that you receive a dun, warns you to look after your affairs and correct all tendency towards neglect of business and love.

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Necessary intervention for physical or mental pain or neglect, i.E. Undesirable, but beneficial chastisement; see “pill”

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A symbol of emotional stagnation or a depiction of the unconscious or the unknown. Grief and death, but also magical power and fertility. In earlier books about dreams, black animals...

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One’s natural urges and instincts, such as sexuality, parental caring, social grouping. What is happening to the animals shows how one is relating to the natural side of one­self—and how...

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When we dream of domesticated animals we are aware of those parts of ourselves with which we have already come to terms. There are passions which are being used in...

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You will have to work hard and diligently to overcome your obstacles if your dream involved one (or more) of these hardy animals, unless it (or they) carried a burden,...

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Domestic animals: Comfort, familiarity, security, gentleness. Astrological parallel: VirgoWild animals: The lower nature, the unknown, fear, danger. Astrological parallel: Aries

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1. Isolation and seclusion.2. Feeling withdrawn from peo­ple or activities, possible neglect in relationships.3. Good for­tune is in the offing.

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They all symbolise one’s enemies.The size and strength of such animals is the deciding factor for the strength and power of such enemies.And Allah knows best.

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In dreams, the metamorphosis of the dreamer or other people into animals and vice versa shows the potential for change within any situation. Coincidentally, magical techniques allow ‘shape-shifting’, permitting magicians...

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If you dream that you possess great wealth, anabundance of everything, it denotes your desire for independence. Still, you must not neglect our duties to those you love while you...

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Carl Jung said that all wild animals indicate latent affects (feelings and emotions that we do not readily deal with). They are also symbolic of dangers (hurtful and negative things)...

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lucky numbers: 05-11-21-28-37-43animals changing to humans: to earn a place in society,modify defensive instincts. humans changing to animals: wil improve present position by rectifying old offenses. insects experiencing, a: the...

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In American culture, we usually think of animals carved upon a tree trunk by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest (totems were also found among ancient cultures throughout the world)....

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1. Inactivity leads to breakdown, deterioration—possibly physical, maybe spiritual.2. Neglect allows business to suffer.3. Inevitable loss, persistent feelings of doom.

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Complication.Chaos or the absence of order.A feeling or fear of a problem somewhere in your life.The idea of neglect, or a need for maintenance.See Knot, Thicket, Wrinkle, Fight

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1. Social pleasure, delight in company and a cheery tempera­ment.2. Neglect or carelessness regarding important affairs or relationships.3. A feeling that someone is a bad influence on the psyche.

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Vision: Dreaming about mysterious, frightening creatures, or monsters: you have been shaken to the depths of your soul.Hidden emotions deep in vour unconscious are raking shape, troubling you. Sometimes the...

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Blessed if green and groomed; if dead or not groomed, it is a reflection of spiritual neglect

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Slow and gradual spiritual destruction caused by spiritual neglect

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To recite the alphabet while sleeping indicates not only the need to organize the ideas, but also a waste of the subject’s talents in the past, through neglect or indifference.

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When interpreting dreams with goats in them, consider the characteristics that we associate with these animals. We consider them to be sturdy and tenacious. Historically, lambs are sacrificial and when...

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The interpretation of this dream depends on the circumstances of the dreamer.To see a cage full of birds means a release from anxiety which could come through a sizable inheritance.An...

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To dream of eating it, you will be taken to task for neglect of duty.To see it growing, your prospects will brighten after a period of loss.For a young woman...

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A dream of a strong, powerful, but unknown, friend; to be bitten by one, injury from a friend (Gypsy). Jung and Freud classify all dreams of animals or of being...

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To imagine that you are being carried over rapids in a dream, denotes that you will suffer appalling loss from the neglect of duty and the courting of seductive pleasures.

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1. Excitement, joy in relationships.2. A need or desire to “rekindle” a relationship with self, work on issues of self-esteem.3. Too much focus on relationships causes neglect of other important...

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Weeds represent neglect.To dream of weeding a garden or lawn may presage letting go of stifling and useless thoughts and actions.

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Neither pets nor wild creatures, agricultural animals often represent personal traits that you may have tamed to a certain extent, although there is always the risk that they will escape...

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If you find you’re enclosed in a space with a group of animals, or living among them, it is important to note what kind of animal they are and what...

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1. A negative omen regarding business.2. Fun and flirtation; use caution not to neglect serious matters or stable relationships.3. A relationship or situation needs to be released or “cut loose”...

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